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Chalara fraxinea - Generic thread


David Humphries
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Not good news. Here an ITV Borders report identifies that C. fraxinea has made it in to ten sites in the Lake District:

 

Ashes to ashes: deadly tree disease reaches Cumbria - ITV News

 

Just for info, the Scottish chap in the video is my good friend Ted Wilson who is a genuinely, expert Silviculturist who runs Silviculture Research International (SILVICULTURE RESEARCH International | Inspiring advances in the science and practice of sustainable forestry). If anyone ever needs (commercial) assistance in tree related research/forest research/forest conservation/CCF etc., without doubt, he should be your go to guy.

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Do people think this could be Ash Dieback? Photo taken today. Tree has dropped a major bough in past 6 months and I'm planning on removing deadwood over private road. Any advice much appreciated. Sam

 

Not to worry, Sam. This is just an ash tree doing its thing. Sometimes they burst into flames or spontaneously chop themselves into logs and pile themselves up neatly into bundles of firewood. Perfectly normal, nothing to worry about.

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Good old 'Betty'

 

Tree identified in East Anglia showing "strong tolerance" to Chalara fraxinea.......

 

Ash dieback 'resistant' tree named Betty found in Norfolk - BBC News

 

 

Defra report on the current position on the molecular understanding of the disease........

 

http://oadb.tsl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Nornex_Final_Report_April_2016.pdf

 

 

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The Independent's article reads a little more promising still:

 

"Initial screening of several small UK populations has also indicated that the markers for tolerance may be more common in UK ash trees, compared with other parts of Europe."

 

I wonder why?

 

 

New hope in fight against ash dieback - a tree called Betty | Nature | Environment | The Independent

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